RSS is the darling of bloggers and Internet news sites. But enterprises have had little use, so far, for the XML-based content syndication technology.
That may change in coming months as companies begin building security and content signing features into RSS, opening the door to enterprise adoption of RSS as a medium for everything from e-commerce transactions to supply chain management, said Andrew Nash, chief technology officer of Reactivity, which makes secure XML infrastructure products.
Last week, Reactivity announced features for its secure XML gateway products that can secure, encrypt and authenticate access to RSS feeds, as well as transform RSS data to and from other XML formats.
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